This is a comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis of relations between landlords and tenants in Ireland in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. W.E. Vaughan explores evictions, rents, tenants' rights, estate management, and tenants' resistance to landlords. In place of the conventional image of predatory and all-powerful landlords, and oppressed, impoverished tenants, the author presents a scholarly and nuanced picture of mutual accommodation, thus revising the traditional view of land relations in nineteenth-century Ireland.

This new volume of a comprehensive history of Ireland presents a character study of the period 1801-1870, and twenty chapters of narrative history on such topics as land and people, the economy, legal developments, literature in English, education, administration and the public service, and emigration.

A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day.
Volume VI opens with a character study of the period, followed by ten chapters of narrative history, and a study of Ireland in 1914. It includes further chapters on the economy, literature, the Irish language, music, arts, education, administration and the public service, and...

This book provides statistics from the first Irish census of 1821-1971, with the overall totals broken down under counties, provinces and towns. The subjects covered include ages, births, marriages, deaths and emigration. It is the second in a series of ancillary publications supplementing 'A New History of Ireland', the first of which was a bibliography of medieval Ireland, c. 1170-1495.